I know. An outrage.

What else can be thought up?
A "Manifesto"? Or a special
"decree"? Or to court?

Vladimir Ilyich, I apologize very much, but I cannot but draw attention to the fact that complaints are pouring in from the localities regarding the policy of the land departments and other organs of Soviet power... Your rule to spare the middle peasant is not being observed...

* What is being referred to has not been established. Ed.

1922

Written in 1921

First published in 1945

in the Lenin Collection XXXV

Printed from the manuscript